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What sort of a person are you? Do you sense things?

I think I shall have to take a chance on you.

Anjelica Huston in The Watcher in the Woods (2017)

Tallulah Evans and Nicholas Galitzine in The Watcher in the Woods (2017)

Anjelica Huston, Tallulah Evans, and Dixie Egerickx in The Watcher in the Woods (2017)

Dixie Egerickx and Tallulah Evans in a still from THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, Hartbreak Fims.

Dixie Egerickx in a still from THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, Hartbreak Films.

Dixie Egerickx andTallulah Evans in a still from THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS.

Dixie Egerickx with Tallulah Evans and director Melissa Joan Hart during filming of THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, August 2016.

Melissa Joan Hart in The Watcher in the Woods (2017)

Anjelica Huston

Tallulah Evans

Nicholas Galitzine

Scott Abbott

Florence Engel Randall

Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the Welsh countryside 30 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer., strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family ...

Melissa Joan Hart

The Watcher in the Woods

The way through the woods

Saw &apos;The Watcher in the Woods&apos;, being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), being a fan of Anjelica Huston and being intrigued by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing it.

Giving &apos;The Watcher in the Woods&apos; a fair chance with being interest and apprehension, it turned out to be far better than expected. Won&apos;t say that &apos;The Watcher in the Woods&apos; is a great film because it isn&apos;t and the potential, while not wasted, is not fully lived up to. Considering the large number of films seen recently being mediocre and less and wasting potential, was expecting worse and was relieved that while wanting in a few areas it was actually one of my better recent low-budget viewings by quite some way.

&apos;The Watcher in the Woods&apos;s&apos; first half in particularly has a promising, unsettling and atmospheric note that really does intrigue. 

Production values did have some eeriness and nowhere near as cheap as expected, and the music, which not the most memorable in the world, didn&apos;t detract from the atmosphere. 

The setting is effectively spooky and the acting was better than average, mysterious Anjelica Huston and fetching Tallulah Evans being good even. There are enough spooky, dark and suspenseful moments and it isn&apos;t dull. The direction doesn&apos;t feel phoned in and the storytelling in the first half especially does intrigue.

However, the final act is on the silly side, trying to take some of the events and tone at face value and with a straight face was somewhat hard. The ending is prematurely easily foreseeable and comes over in a contrived fashion.

Found too the script to lack natural flow and with a fair bit of cheese ad blandness going on and some of the approach to the material is on the tame side for such a haunting story that can be dark. 

Overall, much better than expected but could have been better. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Saw 'The Watcher in the Woods', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), being a fan of Anjelica Huston and being intrigued by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing it.

Giving 'The Watcher in the Woods' a fair chance with being interest and apprehension, it turned out to be far better than expected. Won't say that 'The Watcher in the Woods' is a great film because it isn't and the potential, while not wasted, is not fully lived up to. Considering the large number of films seen recently being mediocre and less and wasting potential, was expecting worse and was relieved that while wanting in a few areas it was actually one of my better recent low-budget viewings by quite some way.

'The Watcher in the Woods's' first half in particularly has a promising, unsettling and atmospheric note that really does intrigue. 

Production values did have some eeriness and nowhere near as cheap as expected, and the music, which not the most memorable in the world, didn't detract from the atmosphere. 

The setting is effectively spooky and the acting was better than average, mysterious Anjelica Huston and fetching Tallulah Evans being good even. There are enough spooky, dark and suspenseful moments and it isn't dull. The direction doesn't feel phoned in and the storytelling in the first half especially does intrigue.

However, the final act is on the silly side, trying to take some of the events and tone at face value and with a straight face was somewhat hard. The ending is prematurely easily foreseeable and comes over in a contrived fashion.

Found too the script to lack natural flow and with a fair bit of cheese ad blandness going on and some of the approach to the material is on the tame side for such a haunting story that can be dark. 

Overall, much better than expected but could have been better. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the Welsh countryside 30 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer., strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.

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